# Swallows and Amazons — Character guide

> Key figures in Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome.

- [Titty Walker](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/swallows_and_amazons_se/characters/titty_walker.md): Titty is the youngest Walker aboard Swallow, but her imagination makes her the crew's best scout and its most daring hand. She proves it by single-handedly capturing the Amazon in the dark, earning Captain Nancy's stunne
- [John Walker](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/swallows_and_amazons_se/characters/john_walker.md): John commands Swallow with a seriousness that shapes every plan the Swallows make, from blockading the Amazons to delivering messages by rowboat. He feels the weight of being watched, especially by the Amazons, and rows 
- [Susan Walker](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/swallows_and_amazons_se/characters/susan_walker.md): Susan balances John's tactics with the unglamorous work of supplies, cooking, and keeping four children alive on an island. She is the one who questions how a plan will actually work, and she carries the message to the c
- [Roger Walker](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/swallows_and_amazons_se/characters/roger_walker.md): Roger is the ship's boy whose first instinct in any crisis is attack, whether suggesting they sink the houseboat or grabbing a parrot-fletched arrow from the fire. He is pulled along by the older children but never doubt
- [Nancy Blackett](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/swallows_and_amazons_se/characters/nancy_blackett.md): Nancy leads the Amazons with swagger and total commitment, renaming herself for the role and treating the Swallows as worthy rivals. She is generous in defeat, shaking Titty's hand and wishing her in her own crew, yet re
- [Peggy Blackett](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/swallows_and_amazons_se/characters/peggy_blackett.md): Peggy crews the Amazon alongside her formidable sister, sharing the raids and the hurried dashes home before breakfast. She is the calmer Blackett, the one who notes that there is hardly time for tea while Nancy spins pl
- [Captain Flint](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/swallows_and_amazons_se/characters/captain_flint.md): He is the Amazons' uncle, living aboard a houseboat on the lake while chasing a treasure he refuses to explain. His suspicion of the Swallows—whom he wrongly accuses of meddling—collides with their code of honor, and his
- [Mother Walker](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/swallows_and_amazons_se/characters/mother_walker.md): She gathers news of the children's doings through Mrs. Blackett and Mrs. Dixon, quietly amused by pirates and parrots alike. Her willingness to let John, Susan, Titty, and Roger camp alone is the permission slip the whol
- [Mr. Dixon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/swallows_and_amazons_se/characters/mr_dixon.md): He and Mrs. Dixon are the practical natives of the lake—the ones who carry messages, spot smoke, and know whose box was stolen. Mrs. Dixon's porridge, hauled across rough water after the gale, shows the quiet kindness th
- [Mr. Jackson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/swallows_and_amazons_se/characters/mr_jackson.md): Local boatman who rents the Swallow to the children.
- [Young Billy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/swallows_and_amazons_se/characters/young_billy.md): Local boy who helps with boats and errands.
- [Old Billy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/swallows_and_amazons_se/characters/old_billy.md): Elderly local man, possibly a fisherman or boatman.
- [Vicky](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/swallows_and_amazons_se/characters/vicky.md): A young girl, possibly a friend or relative of the children.

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